Francis Searle

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Dallas Bower

[…]e not? Dallas Bower 13:50Well yes, he came into the finance simply because I mean, there wasn't enough money to the, the carry the thing and Two Cities was originally financed with Sassoon money very largely and the Sassoon money as large as it was wasn't comparable to the kind of thing the Ran[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…] of the cooperative movement, he translated a number of books about cooperation and so on, wrote a book about competition and self publishing for men cities, I think, anyhow, I've got a copy. And cooperation was one of his songs, nothing was the the Garden City movement, he was very much concerned w[…]

Denis Forman

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 85[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02)Interview Date: 1989-05-11Interviewers: John Taylor, Stephen PeetInterviewee: Sir Denis FormanTape 1, Side 1Denis Forman: I was born in the lowlands of Scotland in Dumfriesshire in the Parish which hadt[…]

Michael Clarke

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E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]er: I want to say This Happy Breed, but it's... E.M. Smedley-Aston: ...very much in those lines, yes. Roy Fowler: It was Two Cities. I remember that.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well if you want a quick [break in recording]Roy Fowler: We're now on side 4, yes. I'm sorry for[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]interviewed by John Taylor with possible interruptions by Stephen Peet. James Gilbert has mainly been a producer and director for television and the date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Just start at the beginning. When were you born and whereJimmy Gilbert: I was born in Edin[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]point of view. I think I wasn’t a very good Shop Steward ‘cos I could always see the other side of it. But Denham didn’t make any films: they had Two Cities, and Independent Producers, and then renters like RKO or whoever came in and Tom White was in charge of Independent Producers and I went in the[…]

Rodney Giesler

  BECTU History Project - Interview No. 312[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-09-24)Interview Dates: 1994-01-20 & 1994-03-24Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Rodney GieslerJohn Legard: Rodney, tell us who your parents were, and how you started, and how you got inter[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]otes and he went away and wrote The Spitfire Fugue.I was now on what was to turn out to be a 11 year stint at Ealing Studios. I worked in various capacities on a number of pictures. To begin with I did a film Cavalcanti directed called 'Tient the Day Well" which still pops up from time to time on th[…]
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